Teams Channel
Setting Up The App
Adjust your notification settings to have Teams work best for you. We will discuss how to be alerted to activity in your Team app efficiently and effectively.
Learn how to change your availability status in Teams, setting a duration, including a status message, and setting an out of office notification.
This video covers the Calls Window in Microsoft Teams. We discuss adding people to speed dials, adding to the contact list, reviewing call history, checking voicemails, and making a call.
Managing Your Team
Learn the process of setting up a team and adding members.
Discover how to add members to your Team after creation. We will cover how to send a link to join, using a Team Code, and manually adding members. We also discuss adding Guest Members, or those people who are employed by the University of Kentucky.
There are many ways to join a Team. This video covers the two most popular way of joining a Team. We will also discuss how to hide a Team from your main window, and how to leave a team.
Learn how to adjust your Team. This includes giving your changing member's roles, adding a Team picture, and modifying member and guest permissions.
Set up a conference call in Teams, where you can access the dial in information and the meeting ID. Also, review how to set the meeting up in Teams and Microsoft Outlook.
Private Chat
This video gives you a brief introduction on how to chat with individuals using the Teams App. We cover how to access the area, look up a person, write a new message, hide the chat, add multiple people, and how to pop out the conversation from the app.
Various other features that can be utilized to enhance your communication in private chat. Topics that are covered include formatting the text, making a message urgent or important, using GIFs, responding with emojis, saving, editing, and deleting your postings.
Review how to make audio and video calls in a private chat. We discuss how to set up your microphones and camera. Also, how to make a call, turning off camera and microphones, sharing screens, chatting during the call, and calling people's phones.
This video demonstrates how to share your screen with another person in the private chat area of Microsoft Teams. We discuss how to start sharing your screen, how to give control to the other user, and how to chat during the screen share.
Learn how to share files in the private chat area of Microsoft Teams. Review how to load the file, the different ways of opening the posted document, collaborating inside of Teams, utilizing the chat window, and accessing the file tab.
Channels in Teams
Conversations or projects can be sub-categorized into channels. This video walks through the steps on how to create a channel to be used in a Team.
To ensure you are getting alerted to all activity in Teams, channel notifications must be turned on. This video shows you how to do custom alerts, and how to turn on all alerts.
Learn all the aspects of chatting in channels. We discuss how to format the text, and how to turn a message into an announcement with a headline banner. Also, how to post a message into multiple channels, and how to properly respond to a message. Finally, we cover how to do a quick reply with one of 6 emojis.
This video covers how to edit an already posted message in a Teams Channel. We also discuss how to delete a message and retrieve a one after it has already been removed. Finally, we show how to archive a message by choosing the Save option.
This video shows you how to tag individuals, channels, and teams in the message field. We also discuss how to create custom tags, and how to send a private chat to the members of a custom tag.
Learn how to upload a file into a Teams' Channel. We discuss how to load a recent file, from Teams and Channels, from your OneDrive, and from your computer. We also cover how to access these files.
When working in Teams you can collaborate with other members in real time. This video shows you how to work together, chat while working on the file, and opening the document into the desktop app.
Watch how to initiate a video call in a Teams Channel and set up your equipment. We discuss how to invite Teams members and people outside the organization. We cover how to turn off mics and cameras, hiding the participants window, turning on the chat window, raising hands, how to change your devices, taking meeting notes, accessing the meeting information, changing the view, adding a background, recording the meeting, sharing your screen, and how to leave the meeting.
To better organize your Teams window, you can hide channels that are not being utilized. This video shows you how to hide, and then unhide channels. Also, we show how to Pin videos to spotlight them in the Teams window.
Review how to delete a channel from Microsoft Teams. Once a channel is deleted, the files that were posted can still be accessed. We also discuss how to navigate into SharePoint to retrieve these files.
